Connecticut western news., 1887-06-08
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redundant Columns.

Mrs. William Kissane intimates that her husband would have killed Gen. Frances Darr long ago if she had not restrained him.
 Postmaster Cannon of Fort Lincoln, Da- kota, has committed suicide by drowning in the Missouri. The Post Office Inspector found irregularities in the office and intimated that Cannon was liable to be arrested and impris- oned.
 destroyed by fire.
 The Iowa State Temperance Alliance is collecting funds to aid in the prosecution of the Haddock murderScases.
 The retrial of the Haddock murder cases at Sioux City, Iowa, has been postponed until September.
 The Northern Pacific Railroad tracks are blocked in Montana by land slides caused by melting snow.
 A number of rubber boot and shoe manu- lecturers met in New York for the purpose of forming pool to monopoliZe the market, keep up prices of manufactured goods, and squelch any attempts of workmen to get, by combined action, more pay.
 UP. Campbell, lately an Erie Railroad detective, at Port Jervls, ls 1n jail at Goshen on charge of larceny.
 Ten of the twelve candidates nominated by the Chicago Bar Committee in opposition to Judicial candidates who are said to have bought their honors, have declined to run and new nominations have been made.
 Tho ra1nfAll mas lmprOVeu the COnultlOn OI the Texas cotton crop.
 It is thought the explosion in the Natchez cotton mill by which several persons were killed, was caused by lightning striking the boiler.
 Charles Davis, Clay Davis and John Enlon were lynched near Eckerty, Ind. They had outraged young girl of the neighborhood.
 Tom McDonough was drowned in the James River at Richmond, Va, while attempt ing to swim across on a wager involving four drinks of whiskey.
 Judge Lyman D. Follett, of the Kent coun- ty (Mich. Probate Court, is reported 6 fugitive with large shortage in his accounts, brought about by dealing in wheat futures.
 A case of imported smallpox in the thickly populated Italian section of Chicago has alarmed the health authorities into vigorous precautionary measures.
 The New Jersey Central railroad has paid its arrears of taxes, $25O, 900, pending the decision on their appeal against the assesss- ment.
 Daniel Pfennig, romantic 19-year- old Bal timore youth, attempted suicide because his attentions to a miss of 10 summers had been forbidden by the girls papa.
 A skin containing three coal miners, David Jones, David Reese, and David Llewel- lyn, capsized in the Monongahela River, at Monongahela City, and the men were drowned.
 A strong and apparently constant flow of natural gas has been struck at Miamisburg, Ohio said to equal any in the State.
 The Swanton and Santa Cruz houses at Santa Cruz, the popular bathing resort of California, were burned. Loss, $50, 900.
 President Clark of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, has offered $500, 900 cash for New Havens interest in the Derby road.
 David wessbin's dry goods store and E. Lowell & Sons wholesale hardware establish ment at Savannah, Ga., were burned. Loss, s125,0OO
 for America during March and April, fearing that the new Derby treaty would curtail some of their privileges.
 The our-year-old daughter of Greenberry Davis of Woods Run, Pa, died from hydro phobia, having been bitten by dog in No- vember ono year ago.
 A grand Interstate reunion of Union and Confederate soldiers will be held at Evans vile, Ind. next September, week before the assembling of the National Encamp- ment, G. A. R., under the auspices of the Grand Army.
 A tornado at Upper Sandusky greatly dam- aged trees and fences. Tho af.ire of the Cath over.
 -Major Elbridge McConkey, Resident Clerk of the Pennsylvania House of Represen- tatives for several sessions, and who had been prominently identified with the State Board of Agriculture, committed suicide by hanging.
 Reports from the Golden City mining re- gions in Arkansas bring glowing accounts of rich gold finds in that vicinity Assays from quartz mines show from $36 to S59 DOT ton free smelling gold. Large quantities of gray cop per arc found in the mines.
 -Benj. Biscoe, on trial in Charles county Md, for the murder of Capt. Dixon of the sloop Mary J., has been convicted of murder in first IS scfS Blscoe confessed after the first trial that he committed the murder and threw the body in- to the Potomac River.
 "A fishing boat occupied by three brothers named John. Jacob and Nicholas Johnston, was taken in tow by the lake steamer Ferris. plying between Sandusky and Putin Bay Island, Lake Erie The small boat lost it's rudder and the steamer pulled it under the water, throwing the three men out, and they were drowned.
 base of High Peak in the Catskill Mountains was destroyed by fire. The hotel was owned by a company in New York and leased by A. B. Chichester, whose individual loss is about $1 GOO; no insurance. The loss on the house and furniture is estimated at S12, 900; insured for $7,0OO. .
 The Richmond, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Luce, and the schooner Decatur Oakes collided off Barnegat light. The schooner was slightly damaged.
 A new bullion vault will be constructed in Washington to hold the vast and rapidly in- creasing hoard of silver dollars.
 William Deery, watchman in the Eric freight depot, Williamsburg, N. Y., was burn ed to death in fire William Gallagher and Patrick Travis, firemen, were seriously injur- ed.
 Once more death from yellow fever is an- nounced in Key West.
 Two laborers, stupefied with drink, were burned in their hunks at the Croton aque' duct, N. Y.
 THEIR LIVES IN PERIL.